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<span class=large>THE PROVERBS</span>
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CHAPTER 4
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Keep the Lord’s commandments and live—With all thy getting get understanding—Go not in the way of evil men.
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Hear,</span> ye children, the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eph. 6: 4 (1-4).">instruction</a> of a father, and attend to know understanding.
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For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
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For I was my father’s son, tender and only <i>beloved</i> in the sight of my mother.
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He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
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Get wisdom, get understanding: forget <i>it</i> not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
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Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Wisdom.">Wisdom</a> <i>is</i> the principal thing; <i>therefore</i> get wisdom: and with all thy getting get <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/4/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Learning; TG Problem-Solving; TG Understanding.">understanding</a>.
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Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
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She shall give to thine head an <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Beauty.">ornament</a> of grace: a crown of <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/4/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Glory.">glory</a> shall she deliver to thee.
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Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 20: 12.">years</a> of thy life shall be many.
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I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Leadership.">led</a> thee in right paths.
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When thou goest, thy steps shall not be <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR distressed, hampered.">straitened</a>; and when thou <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/4/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 89: 20 (19-20).">runnest</a>, thou shalt not stumble.
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Take fast <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 15: 24 (23-24).">hold</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/4/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Education.">instruction</a>; let <i>her</i> not go: keep her; for she <i>is</i> thy life.
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&#182; Enter not into the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 12: 17 (16-18).">path</a> of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil <i>men.</i>
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Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
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For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause <i>some</i> to fall.
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For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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But the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 31: 18 (17-21).">path</a> of the <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/4/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">just</a> <i>is</i> as the shining <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/4/18c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Example; TG Light.">light</a>, that <sup>d</sup><a href="prov/4/18d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Discernment, Spiritual.">shineth</a> more and more unto the perfect day.
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The way of the wicked <i>is</i> as <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Darkness, Spiritual.">darkness</a>: they know not at what they stumble.
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&#182; My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
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Let them not depart from thine <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 4: 25; Morm. 8: 15; D&C 82: 19.">eyes</a>; <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/4/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 2: 1.">keep</a> them in the midst of thine heart.
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For they <i>are</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 19: 17.">life</a> unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
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&#182; Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it <i>are</i> the issues of life.
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Put away from thee a <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/24a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR perverse; D&C 50: 33 (32-33); D&C 84: 73; D&C 105: 24.">froward</a> mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
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Let thine <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 4: 21.">eyes</a> look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/4/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Meditation.">Ponder</a> the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
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Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
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